(Bloomberg) -- Iran will remain part of the Nuclear Proliferation Treaty, the country’s president said, despite the looming threat of renewed UN sanctions and a domestic push by some lawmakers to adopt a more aggressive posture.

“We do not have the intention to leave the NPT,” Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian told reporters at a hotel in midtown New York on Friday.

After European powers moved to reimpose nuclear sanctions on Iran that had been lifted as part of a 2015 nuclear deal with the US and other nations, diplomats feared that Tehran would withdraw from the landmark international agreement aimed at preventing the spread of nuclear weapons.

Pezeshkian’s assurance came on the same day — and at the same hour — that the UN Security Council was voting to reimpose broad sanctions on

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